Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bricklayer, the two clerks, the telephone instructress, the electrician, the tire repair man, the auto salesman, the baker's delivery man, the floor walker, the ice salesman, the tailor and the leather worker who were empaneled three weeks ago in Washington D.C. to decide the guilt or innocence of the aged New Mexico politician (Albert Bacon Fall) and the opulent oilman (Harry Ford Sinclair) in their alleged conspiracy to defraud the U. S. ( TIME, Oct. 31), had listened for over a week to legalistic intricacies. Between court Sons they were free to go to their homes, their only instructions being...
...singing jury, like the one that tried Mr. Fall and Oilman Edward L. Doheny two years ago. Miss Bernice Heaton, the telephone instructress, for example, would ride home from court on a trolley car and go out for the evening with a girl friend. Edward K. Kidwell, the leather worker, would go off and kill time between sessions hanging around a soft-drink stand in Four-and-a-Half Street...
...said (then) that "no man better personifies the insurgent spirit of Kansas." He helped split the Republican Party for Theodore Roosevelt. Of the Six Irreconcilables (the others were Senators La Follette, Cummins, Beveridge, Dolliver, Clapp) he, a veritable Irate Citizen out of some political cartoon, was the hardest worker. "The intensity of John Brown of Ossawatomie and the shrewdness of Vidocq, the French detective," were his. Now, surrounded by silos and shrubbery, he is a peaceable country gentleman with only a "La Follette Avenue" running through his subdivision to recall the stirring past...
...Reds are the Communists and Anarchists, few in number and decreasingly attractive to Socialists. Prosperity in the U. S. and the periodic disorderliness of irresponsible members of their party seem to blight such sympathies as they enlist through being periodically persecuted. William Z. Foster, William F. Dunne (the Daily Worker) and the late Charles Ruthenberg (TIME, March 14) (Communists), and the late Sacco & Vanzetti (Anarchists) are the best known names among them. For the most part they are hot-eyed men of obscure pursuits and little estate, intense indealists as often as scoundrels; lacking organization as badly as friends...
...lack of knowledge was adequate were soon chosen to try whether or not the Messrs. Fall and Sinclair conspired criminally to defraud the U. S. Besides the bricklayer, clerk, telephone instructress, electrician and tire repair man, the dozen included an auto salesman, a baker's delivery man, a leather worker, another clerk, a floorwalker, an ice salesman, a tailor. They settled themselves in their box and prepared to try to understand, weigh, decide...